Monday, February 27, 2017

I had posted some of those images on there a few years ago and decided to review it again, and was pleasantly surprised to see how active it had become. Unfortunately my own works were archived, but they very kindly unarchived them and reposted them online with some newer works, and only then did I see that two of the paintings that I posted up a few years ago were there and I actually don't have them for sale, so I have had to e-mail Tom Hogarty who is in charge of all that to let him know ... a nice complaint to have. Anyway, PLEASE DO visit the link, and I'd love a few comments here on it ....

Oh, and thanks to everyone in the US who's been viewing my blog. Things are tense there right now, so am particularly chuffed that people there are taking the time to view the blog.

Greetings also to viewers in other parts of the world, including Russia.

Thanks to all over you, I pipped the 60,000 views mark last week and didn't notice for ages.

Here's a little watercolour drawing I rediscovered in my vast collection, another from Portugal during that Word Cup of Football (Soccer) when Dolf and I were there, so many football fans enjoying the matches on big screens inside and outside of shopping centres and other public places. So many people to draw .....

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

We were still in Lisbon, and it was during the World Cup and there was yet another football (soccer) match on somewhere, and as the Portuguese are all football MAD the country kind of closed down while their own team was playing, but there were a few people who were otherwise preoccupied, like myself and these two other ladies, whose men were engrossed - ENGROSSED - in the action on the television, as was MY other half, and me, I was just drawing.

The up side of all the football: nobody played me the blindest bit of notice, they were GLUED to the television screens. Except for these two ladies. And me.

So I drew them.

And later I painted it up, let it dry, photographed it and put it away, and promptly forgot about it until I was looking for something else in my vast files of images of my drawings and paintings. A nice little surprise .... I wonder if that lady's kid is into football. He'd be about 6 years old now.

Friday, February 10, 2017

We are blessed with digital technology, really. It has made so many things possible, including the rapid and accurate sharing of news. And photographers have much less waste, in that they don't have to go developing images in a dark room to see what they've got. And you can send your material over the internet so quickly too.

There are down sides, but I think the benefits far outweigh the negatives.

Anyway, here are some pictures of Fanore Strand, in County Clare, same shot, but I thought I'd see how it looks in B&W too. It's an amazing beach.

The figure by the water is the photographer in my life Dolf Patijn, and he has taught me a lot about the art of photography. Do check out his work here.

Edit: The B&W version is getting a lot of love over on Flickr.com, here's the link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/26811601@N03/